A screen grab of Kathleen Knox's campaign website. Knox, 49, has withdrawn from the race for Alameda County's next auditor-controller after being charged with six felony counts for allegedly lying on campaign papers about where she lives.

A candidate who pledged to "fight waste and fraud" as Alameda County's next auditor-controller has withdrawn from the race after being charged with six felony counts for allegedly lying on campaign papers about where she lives.

"The distractions of the current events have become overwhelming," Kathleen Knox, 49, said in a prepared statement, "and my focus now needs to be entirely on my family, my business and my private life."

Alameda County prosecutors said Knox, who is described on the ballot as a business executive, listed her address as 1345 Clarke St. in San Leandro, when she lives in Danville in Contra Costa County.

The San Leandro address is the Rose Gate assisted-living center, which Knox's campaign website says she founded. Knox told investigators she lived in an upstairs two-bedroom apartment on the premises, but workers - and the current resident of the unit - said that wasn't the case, district attorney's Inspector Bruce Brock wrote in an affidavit.

Documents from San Ramon Valley High School in Danville, where her two children have attended, also showed Knox lives in Danville, Brock wrote.

Knox pleaded not guilty earlier this month in Superior Court to six charges, including filing false nomination papers, perjury by declaration and voter fraud. She declined to comment outside court.

The auditor-controller office is responsible for maintaining the county's accounting, payroll, tax analysis and budgeting procedures, and also serves as the county's clerk-recorder.

Steve Manning, the county's chief deputy auditor, is now the sole candidate in the June 3 election for the nonpartisan post. The current auditor-controller, Patrick O'Connell, is not running for re-election.

Knox's name has already been printed on the ballot. If she were elected and later invalidated as a candidate, the seat would be vacated, and the Board of Supervisors could either appoint someone or hold a special election, said Guy Ashley, a spokesman for the county registrar of voters.